As well as reading our set books it would be great if we could share other books we have read that we have really enjoyed and would recommend to others. You don't need to write anything about the book - although feel free to do so. I have used some subheadings to get us started. If you have a book to recommend that falls under another category feel free to add it in. Write your name before the name of the book so that we know where the recommendation came from. Also - feel free to agree or disagree with others recommendations.
BIOGRAPHY Melanie Wilson
Shantaram: Gregory David-Roberts (ditto - Sharyn)
Infidel: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
In My Skin: Kate Holden
Sharyn
The Long Walk to Freedom: Nelson Mandela
Hillary Clinton: John Murray
AUSTRALIAN FICTION Melanie
Wanting & The Unknown Terrorist: Richard Flanagan
Jasper Jones: Craig Silvery (ditto - Sharyn)
The Broken Shore & Truth : Peter Temple
Highways to a War: Christopher J Kosh
Cloudstreet & Breathe: Tim Winton
The Secret River: Kate Grenville
Lovesong: Alex Miller
All That I Am - Anna Funder
Sharyn
The Riders & Dirt Music: Tim Winton
Journey to the Stone Country: Alex Miller
Just Like That - Lilly Brett
NON-FICTION Melanie
Dark Victory: David Marr and Marian Wilkinson
Half the Sky: Nicholas D Kristoff & Sheryl Wudunn
The Tall Man: Chloe Hooper
How to be a Woman: Cailtin Moran
The Justice Game: Geoffrey Robertson
All books by journalist John Simpson
The Female Brain: Louann Brizendine M.D
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: Rebecca Skloot
Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures - Kenneth Cain, Heidi Postlewait and Andrew Thomson
Joe Chinque's Consolation - Helen Gardner
Sharyn
A Very Short History of the World: Geoffrey Blainey
Stasiland: Anna Funder
Affluenza: Oliver James
Wonder Woman: Virginia Hausseger
OTHER FICTION Melanie
American Wife - Curtis Sittenfeld
Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamnda Ngozi Adichie (ditto - Sharyn)
A Prayer for Own Meany: John Irving
A Visit From the Goon Squad: Jennifer Egan
The Guernsey Literacy Potato Peel Pie Society: Mary Ann Shaffer & Anne Burrows
White Teeth: Zadie Smith
The Quiet American: Graeme Greene
Mother's Milk: Edward St. Aubyn
To Kill a Mockingbird: Harper Lee (ditto - Sharyn)
People of the Book: Geraldine Brooks
Lost Horizon: James Hilton
The Book Thief: Marcus Zusak
The Reluctant Fundermentalist - Mushin Hamid
A Passage to India - E. M. Forster
The Great Fire - Shirley Hazzard
The Glass Palace - Amitav Ghosh
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
Birdsong - Sebastion Faulks
The Map of Love - Adhaf Soueif
The Secret History - Donna Tarratt
Jane
Oracle Night: Paul Auster
Sense of an Ending: Julian Barnes (ditto - Sharyn)
Snowdrops: A.D. Miller
Middlesex: Jeffrey Eugenides
Leviathan: Paul Auster
The Handmaid's Tale: Margaret Atwood
The Book Thief: Marcus Zusak
The Sea: John Banville
Brooklyn: Colm Toibin
Two Lives: William Trevor
I Capture the Castle: Dodie Smith
The Book of Illusions: Paul Auster
Never Let Me Go: Kazuo Ishiguro
Song of Achilles: Madeleine Miller
Sharyn
Disgrace: J.M Coetzee
Wolf Hall: Hillary Mantel
The God of Small Things: Arundhati Roy
Norweigan Wood: Haruki Murakami
Never Let Me Go & When We Were Orphans: Kazuo Ishiguro
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: Mark Haddon
One Day: David Nichols
When God Was a Rabbit: Sarah Winman
We Need to Talk About Kevin: Lionel Shriver
The Great Gatsby: F. Scott Fitzgerald
I Capture the Castle: Dodie Smith
PARENTING Melanie
Queen Bees and Wanta Bees - Rosalind Wiseman
Why Gender Matters - Leonard Sax MD PhD
Why First Borns Want to Rule the World and Last Borns Want to Change it - Michael Grose
How Not to F%$* Them Up - Oliver James (ditto - Sharyn, together with Affluenza)
BIOGRAPHY
Melanie Wilson
Shantaram: Gregory David-Roberts (ditto - Sharyn)
Infidel: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
In My Skin: Kate Holden
Sharyn
The Long Walk to Freedom: Nelson Mandela
Hillary Clinton: John Murray
AUSTRALIAN FICTION
Melanie
Wanting & The Unknown Terrorist: Richard Flanagan
Jasper Jones: Craig Silvery (ditto - Sharyn)
The Broken Shore & Truth : Peter Temple
Highways to a War: Christopher J Kosh
Cloudstreet & Breathe: Tim Winton
The Secret River: Kate Grenville
Lovesong: Alex Miller
All That I Am - Anna Funder
Sharyn
The Riders & Dirt Music: Tim Winton
Journey to the Stone Country: Alex Miller
Just Like That - Lilly Brett
NON-FICTION
Melanie
Dark Victory: David Marr and Marian Wilkinson
Half the Sky: Nicholas D Kristoff & Sheryl Wudunn
The Tall Man: Chloe Hooper
How to be a Woman: Cailtin Moran
The Justice Game: Geoffrey Robertson
All books by journalist John Simpson
The Female Brain: Louann Brizendine M.D
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: Rebecca Skloot
Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures - Kenneth Cain, Heidi Postlewait and Andrew Thomson
Joe Chinque's Consolation - Helen Gardner
Sharyn
A Very Short History of the World: Geoffrey Blainey
Stasiland: Anna Funder
Affluenza: Oliver James
Wonder Woman: Virginia Hausseger
OTHER FICTION
Melanie
American Wife - Curtis Sittenfeld
Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamnda Ngozi Adichie (ditto - Sharyn)
A Prayer for Own Meany: John Irving
A Visit From the Goon Squad: Jennifer Egan
The Guernsey Literacy Potato Peel Pie Society: Mary Ann Shaffer & Anne Burrows
White Teeth: Zadie Smith
The Quiet American: Graeme Greene
Mother's Milk: Edward St. Aubyn
To Kill a Mockingbird: Harper Lee (ditto - Sharyn)
People of the Book: Geraldine Brooks
Lost Horizon: James Hilton
The Book Thief: Marcus Zusak
The Reluctant Fundermentalist - Mushin Hamid
A Passage to India - E. M. Forster
The Great Fire - Shirley Hazzard
The Glass Palace - Amitav Ghosh
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
Birdsong - Sebastion Faulks
The Map of Love - Adhaf Soueif
The Secret History - Donna Tarratt
Jane
Oracle Night: Paul Auster
Sense of an Ending: Julian Barnes (ditto - Sharyn)
Snowdrops: A.D. Miller
Middlesex: Jeffrey Eugenides
Leviathan: Paul Auster
The Handmaid's Tale: Margaret Atwood
The Book Thief: Marcus Zusak
The Sea: John Banville
Brooklyn: Colm Toibin
Two Lives: William Trevor
I Capture the Castle: Dodie Smith
The Book of Illusions: Paul Auster
Never Let Me Go: Kazuo Ishiguro
Song of Achilles: Madeleine Miller
Sharyn
Disgrace: J.M Coetzee
Wolf Hall: Hillary Mantel
The God of Small Things: Arundhati Roy
Norweigan Wood: Haruki Murakami
Never Let Me Go & When We Were Orphans: Kazuo Ishiguro
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: Mark Haddon
One Day: David Nichols
When God Was a Rabbit: Sarah Winman
We Need to Talk About Kevin: Lionel Shriver
The Great Gatsby: F. Scott Fitzgerald
I Capture the Castle: Dodie Smith
PARENTING
Melanie
Queen Bees and Wanta Bees - Rosalind Wiseman
Why Gender Matters - Leonard Sax MD PhD
Why First Borns Want to Rule the World and Last Borns Want to Change it - Michael Grose
How Not to F%$* Them Up - Oliver James (ditto - Sharyn, together with Affluenza)